Mr. French: I'm the guy who tells you there are guys you can hit, and there are guys you can't. Now that's not quite a guy you can't hit, but it's almost a guy you can't hit, so I'm fucking ruling on it right now that you don't hit him, understand?
Colin Sullivan: [Colin is stepping out the elevator in his apartment building. He sees a dog and reaches out] Hey, pup.
Colin Sullivan: [the owner and the dog pull away from him. Colin goes to his door and sticks the keys in. He pauses, leaning against the door, and a sniffle is faintly heard. He then goes inside his apartment, only to find Sergeant Dignam with a pistol waiting for him]
Colin Sullivan: [Colin is surprised, but then realizes that he's got nowhere to run] Okay. [Sergeant Dignam then shoots Colin in the head and walks out the door]
Billy Costigan: Maybe it would have done you some good to have some *questions* from time to time, you know? 'Am I an asshole? Are my kids a mess? Is my wife a money-grubbing whore?' I mean, those are questions, right? 'Have I ever been good to my dying sister or am I just now pretending to be?'
Mr. French: I know who you are, I know your family, I know where you come from. You make one more drug deal with that idiot fucking cop magnet of a cousin of yours, and I'll forget your grandmother was so nice to me. I'll cut your fucking nuts off, you understand that?
Frank Costello: When I was your age they [church people] would say we could become cops or criminals... What I am saying to you is this... When you are facing a loaded gun, whats the difference?
Frank Costello: I'm concerned about a Chinaman who thinks it's wise to come to a business transaction with automatic weapons.
[to the Chinese translator]
For his own good, tell Bruce Lee and the Karate Kids none of us are carrying automatic weapons. Because here - in this country... it don't add inches to your dick. You get a life sentence for it.
Frank Costello: I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago we had the church. That was only a way of saying - we had each other. The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers; true guineas. They took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job, we had the presidency. May he rest in peace. That's what the niggers don't realize. If I got one thing against the black chappies, it's this - no one gives it to you. You have to take it.
Captain Ellerby: I'm sorry, to keep you until last minute but things leaked, this lead came from Queenan's undercover guy, I'm going for a smoke right now, do you want a smoke? You don't smoke do ya? What are you one of those fitness freaks, huh? Go fuck yourself.
Frank Costello: When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump the body in the marsh... not where some guy from John Hancock goes every Thursday to get a f*ckin' blowjob! Don't laugh! This ain't reality T.V.!
Frank Costello: When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?
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